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| Scroll down the website to read much more news on One Click or go to the News Archives SUMMARY * The Virtual Revolution - How The Web Threatens The State  Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her fascinating investigation into the power of the internet with the Enemy of the State, part two of The Virtual Revolution. Starting with the impact that Twitter had during last summer's political violence in Iran, she asks if the internet can genuinely threaten governments. The answer is yes. Thanks to the internet, the nature of communities and what they can now do has entirely changed. Dr Krotoski charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. The Virtual Revolution, Enemy Of The State, BBC 2 * Britain's MPs - Criminal Prosecutions And Failure To Repay  Disgraced Pharma Rep Dr Ian Gibson ex-MP, where is the taxpayers' money? (Caption & Pic Courtesy Of One Click) It has been announced today that three Labour MPs (Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, David Chaytor) and one Conservative Peer (Lord Hanningfield) have had criminal charges laid against them for taxpayer fraud under the Theft Act which could see the four spending up to seven years in jail. Hundreds of MPs have been ordered to repay a total of £1.12 million. The activities of our elected representatives criminally cocooned by a risible culture of deference have irrevocably tarnished Britain. More than a dozen former MPs have failed to repay over-claimed expenses, raising the prospect that the money will never be recovered. Pharma Rep Dr Ian Gibson ex-MP was ordered to repay £16,025 but has yet to do so. This is the scandal that was so purposefully wiped off the front pages of the newspapers by the government-orchestrated Swine Flu Panic, another outbreak of criminal government incompetence prompted by the pharmaceutical industry that has cost the electorate billions. The One Click Group / The Daily Telegraph Related Links: * MPs And Peer Charged Over Expenses Julia Reid, Sky News * Swine Flu Scandal - UK Government Squandered Billions  Billions of pounds have been wasted on swine flu vaccines that will never be used Ministers said yesterday the flu hotline and website that make up the National Pandemic Flu Service will be closed from next week. As the NHS was taken off red alert, questions were asked over why so many doses of the vaccine were ordered but never used. Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It beggars belief that they could have signed so many massive contracts with such a flawed assessment of the threat.” So far, the cost of the drugs has remained a secret but some estimates suggest the vaccines could have cost as much as £9 a dose, with a total bill of more than £1billion. Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, the council’s head of health, said the swine flu saga was a medical scandal, adding: “We had a mild flu and a false pandemic." Victoria Fletcher, Daily Express Related Links: * UK Government Squandered More Than £1 Billion On Swine Flu Con The Press Association / The One Click Group * Pharmaceutical Industry Cried Wolf Over Swine Flu For Profit Staff Writer, RT * ISIS Report - Swine Flu A Faked Pandemic, Gross Conflict Of Interest Dr Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society * UK DNA Database Is Causing Suicides, MPs Are Warned  DNA from innocent people should not be kept on the DNA database, Sir Alec Jeffreys has warned Keeping profiles of the innocent on the DNA database causes immense distress and has even led to suicide, the pioneer of fingerprinting technology warned MPs yesterday. Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented the use of DNA to fight crime, said storing these records could lead to 'an unfair presumption of guilt'. Sir Alec said: 'I want the balance to be struck. I have not heard anything about the rights of the innocent victim, and the distress at being branded a criminal. Innocent people on the database are being used inefficiently to solve future crimes - and that goes against their civil rights. I want to get rid of the DNA of innocent people from the database, it is as simple as that.' Colin Fernandez, Daily Mail * Gardasil Vaccine Warnings Ignored Says Researcher  Julie Smith, researcher and founder of an NZ website set up specifically to give information about the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, www.offtheradar.co.nz says concerned parents have been contacting her wanting to know how they can help to have the vaccine withdrawn from New Zealand. After last night's Close Up on TV 1 Ms Smith says "Many more parents are making the connection to their child's sudden onset of deteriorating health since receiving the Gardasil vaccine. What is now happening to our girls here in New Zealand is replicating what has already happened overseas. It was only a matter of time before girls here were going to die from this vaccine." Julie Smith, SCOOP! Independent News, New Zealand Related Links: * Calls For Cervarix HPV Vaccine To Be Suspended In The UK Daily Mail Reporter, Daily Mail * New Zealand Launches Website For Gardasil Vaccine Victims  This New Zealand website was born out of the frustration of a parent who wished to make an "informed" decision about Gardasil for their daughter, and the difficulty they incurred at not being told the complete story about the vaccine by "The Ministry of Health and medical establishment". To have a "one stop shop" of information for parents concerning what is being put into their children, whether by vaccine or food, this website endeavours to tell "what they didn't want you to hear". Information Release, Off The Radar Related Links: * New USA Website Launched For Gardasil/Cervarix Vaccine Victims Susan Brinkmann, The Bulletin, Philadelphia * GMC Urges 'Abhorrent Sexual Deviant' Doctor To Carry On Working  Dr Nicholas Spicer was cleared by a General Medical Council disciplinary hearing after downloading child-sex stories Dr Nicholas Spicer, 55, was hauled before a General Medical Council disciplinary hearing, where he was described as 'an abhorrent sexual deviant with an interest in children' while working with children as a GP. But he was cleared of misconduct by the GMC and banned from practising for just six months 'on grounds of health'. Child safety groups yesterday condemned the GMC's decision not to strike him off the medical register. Spicer's disgusted wife Patricia has started divorce proceedings. She said: "People and professionals that I have spoken to are mystified about the decision. The GMC's mission statement is 'protecting doctors, protecting people', but they are not living up to it." Daily Mail Reporter, Daily Mail Related Links: * General Medical Council Killer Doctor Nepotism Puts Lives At Risk BBC News / The One Click Group * GMC Infuriates Families As Guilty Dr Jane Barton Keeps Her Job The Press Association * Lancet Retracts Wakefield Et Al Paper After GMC Dishonesty Findings  Following a ruling last week by the General Medical Council that Dr Andrew Wakefield had breached his professional duties, the Lancet said in a statement on its website that he had made false claims in his 1998 paper and concluded: “We fully retract this paper from the published record.” The original Lancet paper made only the cautious link that parents “associated” behavioural symptoms of their children with MMR, balanced by a critical editorial comment at the time and a subsequent series of letters, as well as a partial retraction of the original paper by some of Dr Wakefield’s co-authors. Dr Wakefield’s subsequent calls for separate vaccines for the different infections – including an experimental product under development by a company in which he had an interest came under sharp scrutiny. Andrew Jack, The Financial Times Related Links: * Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children A J Wakefield, S H Murch, J A Walker-Smith et al, The Lancet (paper retracted) * Findings Of Fact - Summary, Wakefield et al General Medical Council * Findngs Of Fact - Full, Wakefield et al General Medical Council * The ME/CFS Illness That's Dogged By Lies, Myths And Prejudice  Ian Logan Amid such horror it is hard to salvage even the smallest fragment of hope but Kay Gilderdale's ordeal may at least help tear down the rotten edifice of lies, myths and prejudices which still dog the ME/CFS illness once dismissed as yuppie flu but which experts in the US now postulate is connected to a rare retrovirus, XMRV. Ian Logan, 62, chairman of Worcestershire ME Support Group and previously an engineer in a job he loved has battled ME/CFS for the last 20 years. He said: “Even thinking makes the brain hurt. It fogs over. You don’t know where to lie in bed. Your arms ache. Your head aches. An overcoat feels too heavy to wear, like a hundredweight. Your shoes feel like leaden boots. It’s like walking in mud, like trying to walk across a ploughed field or writing left-handed when you’re right-handed. The psychologists have held sway for many years and with the millions they have had, have not yet come up with any answers at all. It’s time they stepped aside and let the physicians have the money.” James Connell, Worcester News Related Links: * BBC Panorama - I Helped My ME/CFS Daughter To Die Jeremy Vine, BBC Panorama * Acquitted Of ME/CFS Daughter Murder, Kay Gilderdale Begins The Rest Of Her Life Neil Tweedie, The Independent * Positive USA ME/CFS Leadership Change At The CDC  Dr. William C. Reeves [Ed. Note: much detested] will be leaving his post as head of the CFS program at CDC as of Feb. 14th to accept assignment as Senior Advisor for Mental Health Surveillance in the Public Health Surveillance Program Office. Dr. Elizabeth Unger will serve as Acting Chief, Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, which includes the CFS program. I believe that the leadership change effort of the IACFS/ME over the past several months was critical to this successful outcome. In particular, strong and compelling testimony from a number of high profile CFS professionals. Fred Friedberg, PhD, President, IACFS/ME Related Links: * Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Judy A. Mikovits et al, Science Express * MPs Provide Valuable Service For UK Legal Aid  This has hardly been a vintage session for the dignity of parliament, with politicians of all major parties bundled into the stocks for claiming expenses for duck houses and the like. However, the Public Accounts Committee’s damning report on Legal Aid procurement does at least suggest that our elected representatives are capable of redemption. In highlighting the incompetent performance of the Legal Services Commission (LSC), MPs have performed a valuable public service and substantiated what solicitors have been saying for months. No wonder leading practitioners such as Rodney Warren, director of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association, have suggested the LSC should simply be scrapped. Opinion, Law Society Gazette * UK Disability Living Allowance Short Form Con Update Plus Keeping ESA After Losing  In this edition we have an update on the four page DLA renewal form - and we are definitely advising people to treat it with enormous caution, given the feedback we've had from members. The Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) are taking advantage of the backlog in administering ESA wherever they can, however. We have a copy of guidance issued to decision makers this week to ensure that, where there has been a delay in medical assessments, the DWP pockets cash that should be being paid to claimants. From April 6th 2010 GPs will no longer issue sick notes to their patients. Instead, they will issue a 'statement of fitness for work' or 'fit note' as it will generally be known. Steve Donnison, Benefits & Work * 17 Cases Of Swine Flu Vaccine Damage Probed  The provincial health ministry is investigating 17 cases in which people fell seriously ill after the receipt of the H1N1 flu vaccine. Andrew Morrison, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, said the cases include four vaccine recipients who came down with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) — a rare neurological condition characterized by sudden weakness or paralysis. Another 13 people came down with anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction which can include symptoms of anaphylactic shock, rapid heartbeat, itchiness in the skin and difficulty breathing. Sharon Lem, Toronto Sun Related Links: * Shameful Medical Silence - Two Canadians Paralysed By Swine Flu Vaccine Michele Mandel, Toronto Sun * Agony Of UK Doctor's Receptionist Paralysed By Swine Flu Vaccine Sophie Borland, Daily Mail * GlaxoSmithKline - No Explanation For Canada Killer H1N1 Vaccine Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter, Canadian Press * Is The Gardasil Vaccine Killing Your Daughters?  It is supposed to save lives but could it instead kill your daughter? An Upper Hutt mother is blaming the cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, for her 18-year-old daughter's death - and she is not alone. Rhonda Renata's daughter Jasmine died in September, six months after completing her third and final dose of Gardasil, and after a year of health problems. Corinne Ambler, TVNZ Related Links: * New Website Launched For Gardasil/Cervarix Vaccine Victims Susan Brinkmann, Philadelphia Bulletin * BBC Panorama - I Helped My Daughter To Die  What drives a mother to help her child die? For almost a year, Panorama cameras have been following Kay Gilderdale - the woman at the centre of the recent Assisted Suicide trial - as she faced a possible life sentence over her part in the death of her daughter Lynn (who suffered from ME/CFS). Jeremy Vine, BBC Panorama Related Links: * Acquitted Of ME/CFS Daughter Murder, Kay Gilderdale Begins The Rest Of Her Life Neil Tweedie, The Independent * A Trial Over Botox In Children With Cerebral Palsy  A woman is suing Allergan, which makes Botox, because she believes the injectable cosmetic med led to the death of her seven-year-old daughter. Why? Botox was used to treat muscle spasms resulting from cerebral palsy, and Dee Spears charges Allergan wrongfully promoted untested and off-label uses, misrepresented Botox safety record, and failed to adequately warn health care providers of all the known risks of the product, according to court documents. At issue is the safety of the drug, especially in higher doses used to treat kids with cerebral palsy. Ed Silverman, Pharmalot * General Medical Council Killer Doctor Nepotism Puts Lives At Risk  General Medical Council nepotism rules OK, from left: Niall Dickson, GMC Chief Executive Professor Christopher Bulstrode, Ex-GMC Committee Member & Dr Jane Barton's brother Killer Dr Jane Barton, still allowed to work by express permission of the GMC (Caption & Pic Courtesy Of One Click) The UK General Medical Council decision to allow Dr Jane Barton (aka Ms. Diamorphine) found guilty of serious professional misconduct to continue working is to be examined by by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE). The GMC hearing followed a jury inquest last year into the deaths of 10 patients at the hospital between 1996 and 1999, which found Dr Jane Barton and her drugs to be a factor in five cases. One Click Note: Nowhere has the traditional media chosen to report the news all over the internet that ex GMC Committee Member Professor Christopher Bulstrode is the aforementioned Dr Jane Barton's brother. When the GMC was questioned this morning, it stonewalled and refused to comment. If so, this is nepotism of the very worst kind in action, putting people's lives at risk. This disgraceful old boys GMC charity club headed by Niall Dickson should be disbanded with immediate effect as a danger to the public. BBC News / The One Click Group Related Links: * GMC Infuriates Families As Guilty Dr Jane Barton Keeps Her Job The Press Association * Americans Say NO To Medical Database  A recent survey conducted by the respected and nonpartisan Ponemon Institute found that a whopping 75% of Americans do not support a database of private health information in the hands of the federal government. The vast majority of Americans – 85% - are not even aware that such a move is in the works; that such a proposal was in fact snuck into the health care legislation passed recently by both the House and the Senate. President Obama claimed in his state of the union address that “we still need healthcare reform” to protect Americans from “the worst practices of the insurance industry.” What about protecting those same Americans from the mistakes which inevitably will occur and recur, once the federal government takes over the management of 300 million-plus medical histories? Bob Barr, Atlanta Journal-Constitution * ISIS Report - Swine Flu A Faked Pandemic, Gross Conflict Of Interest  The truth is out. More than half of the experts advising the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare swine flu a ‘pandemic’ are linked to drug-makers that have reaped huge profits from untested vaccines and flu drugs. Eleven of the 20 members of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) have profited from work done for the pharmaceutical industry or are linked to it through their universities. Many have declared interests in GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine maker that stands to benefit the most from the pandemic. This SAGE group redefined ‘pandemic’ in an important way in order to mandate the mass purchase of vaccines and drugs by governments. Dr Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society Report Related Links: * UK Government Squandered More Than £1 Billion On Swine Flu Con The Press Association / The One Click Group * WHO Investigated For Pharma Corruption Imogen Foulkes, Deutsche Welle / The One Click Group * Tax And Spend For The Corrupt World Health Organisation George Russell, Fox News * Shameful Medical Silence - Two Canadians Paralysed By Swine Flu Vaccine  Donna Hartlen, a young mother who is now partially paralyzed, has been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome Downstairs in the rehab wing of Markham Stouffville hospital, in a private room with a sunny window, lies Donna Hartlen, a young mother who is now partially paralyzed. The doctors diagnosed her with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). And while no one seems willing to discuss the likely cause, the 39-year-old knows exactly where the fault lies - the Swine Flu vaccine. Don Gibson has GBS as well, with legs so numb now that he is confined to a wheelchair. It turns out that not only was he also vaccinated against H1N1, but he got the shot just two days before Hartlen, in the very same Markham doctors’ office. “Not a single doctor we’ve talked with will even remotely discuss that it’s the H1N1 shot,” marvels Hartlen. “They almost pretend they don’t hear you. They don’t want to alarm the public and they don’t want you to stir up trouble.” Michele Mandel, Toronto Sun Related Links: * GlaxoSmithKline - No Explanation For Canada Killer H1N1 Vaccine Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter, Canadian Press * Agony Of UK Doctor's Receptionist Paralysed By Swine Flu Vaccine  Jab: Alison Dygnas led an active life before the vaccine, but now struggles to walk A receptionist at a GP’s surgery has been left unable to walk properly after having the swine flu jab. Doctors believe the jab triggered a condition affecting the nervous system known as myasthenia gravis (aka Guillain-Barre syndrome). Alison Dygnas, who as an NHS worker was advised to have the vaccination, also experienced the paralysis in her face, had slurred speech and found eating difficult. The leg paralysis can be reduced by very strong tablets that can be taken up to 20 times a day. The medication causes nausea and vomiting. Mrs Dygnas, who owns a horse and used to walk her two dogs every day, has been forced to give up her job and spends most of her time at home. Sophie Borland, Daily Mail Related Links: * Hong Kong Cardiologist - Don't Get Swine Flu Vaccinated Mary Ann Benitez and Patsy Moy, Hong Kong Standard * USA Boy Struck Down By Potentially Fatal Nerve Disease After Swine Flu Vaccine JoNel Aleccia, msnbc.com * Canada National ME/FM Network Hosting 10th International Conference  We are pleased to advise you that it is now official. The National ME/FM Action Network is hosting the 10th International IACFS/ME Research & Clinical Conference Translating Evidence into Practice: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Related Illnesses. Date: September 22-25, 2011. Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa, Canada. It is the first time that such a conference will be held in Canada. We need your help to raise $150,000 which is the cost of this conference. It is anticipated that this event will be accredited for continuing medical education. Lydia E. Neilson, Chief Executive Officer, National ME/FM Action Network * One Click Stats - 31 January 2010  We provide our readers with the top fifteen documents and articles read/downloaded by thousands of people from all over the globe during January 2010. Document uptake varies each month on One Click dependent upon which issues the pressure group is currently covering. Romping up the ranks this month has been UK Government Squandered More Than £1 Billion On Swine Flu Con, The Press Association / The One Click Group. Happy reading to all. Information Release, The One Click Group * Tax And Spend For The Corrupt World Health Organisation  A member of a World Health Organization (WHO) panel of experts that is pondering new global taxes on e-mails, alcohol, tobacco, airline travel and consumer bank transactions, has charged that she was given only selective information at group meetings, that deliberations were rushed and that group was "manipulated" by the international pharmaceuticals industry. The report lays out, and generally endorses, a number of public-private partnerships in the developing world with some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical firms. George Russell, Fox News Related Links: * Corrupt WHO Seeks Global Tax On Internet Activity To Benefit Pharma George Russell, Fox News * WHO Investigated For Pharma Corruption Imogen Foulkes, Deutsche Welle / The One Click Group * Faked Pandemics - A Threat For Health Motion in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe * European Parliament To Investigate WHO And 'Pandemic' Scandal F. William Engdahl, Global Research * Swine Flu Didn't Fly - Truthout Report  Dr Meryl Nass MD Wow, what a year 2009 was for makers of the swine flu vaccine. CSL Limited's profits rose 63 percent above 2008 levels, while in the third quarter of 2009, GlaxoSmithKline enjoyed a 30 percent jump in earnings to $2.19 billion. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, saw second quarter profits leap to 12 times what they were in that quarter of 2008. But in 2010, drug companies may get their comeuppance. On Tuesday, the Council of Europe launched an investigation into whether the World Health Organization (WHO) "faked" the swine flu pandemic to boost profits for vaccine manufacturers. Food and drug agencies in Canada, the UK, France, the US, and elsewhere guaranteed vaccine manufacturers that they would be shielded from any lawsuits connected to the vaccines. This enabled companies to fast track the testing process, reducing some trials to as little as five days. Dr Meryl Nass MD, from the Truthout Report * Miscarriage Prompts Halt To Swine Flu Jabs  H1N1 flu vaccinations among pregnant women have been suspended after a woman who received a jab lost her baby to miscarriage a day later. The Public Health Ministry yesterday denied any link between the vaccinations and the foetal death, but as a precaution suspended flu shots among pregnant women pending an investigation into the miscarriage in the southern province of Satun. Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Bangkok Post Related Links: * Swine Flu Vaccine Causes Hong Kong Women To Miscarry Li Xinran, Shanghai Daily * Czech President Steps In To Stop Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccine For Soldiers  President Vaclav Klaus has stepped in to stop mandatory vaccination of Czech soldiers against swine flu, telling Army staff the order to vaccinate all 16,000 soldiers was “highly controversial, if not unacceptable.” President Klaus appears unconvinced that the Czech Republic is in the grip of a swine flu epidemic. A number of Czech doctors have publicly refused to vaccinate either themselves or their patients, saying the possible health risks outweighed the benefits. Rob Cameron, Radio Praha, Czech Republic * New Website Launched For Gardasil/Cervarix Vaccine Victims  Two North Carolina women who met when their daughters both became sick after being vaccinated by the same lot of the controversial Gardasil vaccine, have launched a new Web site to help victims find information and support at TruthAboutGardasil.org. Between the two of them, they have been in contact with parents from England, Spain, Germany, Holland and Australia, all with daughters who suffered serious injury or died after receiving either Gardasil or its European equivalent, GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix. Comments are already pouring into the new site. One woman says her granddaughter had her first Gardasil shot and “hasn’t been the same since.” Susan Brinkmann, Philadelphia Bulletin * Medical Profession Told Dying ME/CFS Girl That She Was Lying  Criona Wilson with a picture of Sophia, who died of ME aged 32 As Criona Wilson knelt beside her dying daughter’s bedside who had been disbelieved, sectioned and forcibly removed from her home by psychiatrists, she promised her that her death would not be in vain. Her battle saw her take on the medical profession and accepted thinking about the diagnosis and treatment of ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. Eventually, in 2006, a coroner ruled that Sophia’s death was the result of myalgic encephalomyelitis — the first such ruling at an English inquest. Steve Bird, The Times Related Links: * Acquitted Of ME/CFS Daughter Murder, Kay Gilderdale Begins The Rest Of Her Life Neil Tweedie, The Independent * Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Vincent C. Lombardi, Judy A. Mikovits et al, Science Express * Scandalous All Party Parliamentary Group On ME/CFS Exposed  This was the first All Party Parliamentary Group on M.E (APPGME) meeting I'd ever been able to attend and I've now seen for myself how the APPGME operates. Worst of all was the surprisingly unprofessional and unhelpful behaviour of the Chairman, Des Turner MP and the Secretary, the Countess of Mar, right at the start of the meeting. Dr Charles Shepherd of the discredited Myalgic 'Encephalopathy' Association (MEA) has produced an account of the meeting on the MEA website that is false. It is not just a distortion of the facts, it is blatantly wrong. This meeting "got off to an extremely regrettable start", alright - but not because of the M.E. patients present; it was thanks to the Chairman's and Secretary's inability to control themselves. The salaries of the public figures involved now published. And it's the sick and disabled these people are supposed to help who are branded "benefits scroungers"? John Sayer, Chairman, M.E. Support, Norfolk END SUMMARY Scroll down the website to read much more news on One Click or go to the News Archives The One Click Group |
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| The Virtual Revolution - How The Web Threatens The State | ||
 6 February 2010 The Virtual Revolution - Enemy of the State?Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her fascinating investigation into the power of the internet with the Enemy of the State, part two of The Virtual Revolution. Starting with the impact that Twitter had during last summer's political violence in Iran, she asks if the internet can genuinely threaten governments. The answer is yes. Thanks to the internet, the nature of communities and what they can now do has entirely changed. Dr Krotoski charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. MUST WATCH |
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| Britain's MPs - Criminal Prosecutions And Failure To Repay | ||
One Click Note: It has been announced today that three Labour MPs (Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, David Chaytor) and one Conservative Peer (Lord Hanningfield ) have had criminal charges laid against them for taxpayer fraud under the Theft Act which could see the four spending up to seven years in jail. See MPs And Peer Charged Over Expenses. Hundreds of MPs have been ordered to repay a total of £1.12 million. The activities of our elected representatives criminally cocooned by a risible culture of deference have irrevocably tarnished Britain. More than a dozen former MPs have failed to repay over-claimed expenses running into tens of thousands of pounds, raising the prospect that the money will never be recovered. Pharma Rep Dr Ian Gibson ex-MP was ordered to repay £16,025, but has yet to do so. This is the scandal that was so effectively wiped off the front pages of the newspapers by the government-orchestrated Swine Flu Panic, another outbreak of criminal government incompetence prompted by the pharmaceutical industry that has cost the electorate billions. 05 Feb 2010 MPs’ expenses: former MPs may refuse to pay up By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Disgraced Pharma Rep Dr Ian Gibson ex-MP, where is the taxpayers' money? (Caption & Pic Courtesy Of One Click) More than a dozen former MPs have failed to repay over-claimed expenses running into tens of thousands of pounds, raising the prospect that the money will never be recovered. They include a number who owe the taxpayer five figure sums yet have simply failed to respond to letters from the auditor, and others who have ignored requests to provide evidence for their claims. Because they are no longer in the Commons, there is no way of clawing back funds from them by docking their salaries, as will be the case for serving MPs. In total, nearly £89,000 was outstanding from MPs who stood down or were voted out in the 2005 election as Sir Thomas finalised his report at the start of the week. Among those who did not respond to letters sent to addresses registered with the Parliamentary authorities – likely to be current as this is where correspondence relating to pensions will be sent – were four former MPs, all Labour, who owe more than £10,000. The highest unpaid amount is due from John Lyons, the former MP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, who Sir Thomas said had failed to reply to any of a “number” of letters he had been sent. The former trade union official was asked to provide the Legg audit with evidence to support mortgage interest claims totalling £18,780.80. Ivor Caplin, a former defence minister who represented Hove between 1997 and 2005, also failed to reply to repeated requests from Sir Thomas for paperwork relating to mortgage interest claims running to £17,865.33. The auditor said: “No reply has been received from Mr Caplin to a number of letters sent to the address held by the House authorities. “In default of evidence ... I must regard these payments as having been invalid. “Accordingly my recommendation is that Mr Caplin should repay the whole of this sum.” Mr Caplin owns and runs a number of London-based companies specialising in areas such as political lobbying and construction work. Ian Gibson, who stood down as MP for Norwich North at the height of the expenses scandal in June after The Daily Telegraph disclosed that he allowed his daughter to live rent-free in his taxpayer-funded second home, was told that he should not have claimed the full costs of the property. He was ordered to repay £16,025 by Sir Thomas, but has yet to do so. Diana Organ, who represented the Forest of Dean between 1997 and 2005, failed to provide mortgage statements and was told to return £15,964.01. She had not complied by this week. Baroness Adams, a Labour peer who as Irene Adams represented Paisley North, lost her appeal against a repayment request for £2,985 in cleaning and £4,110 for mortgage interest payments after failing to provide Sir Thomas with a building society statement. In a letter delivering his findings, Sir Paul Kennedy, who heard the challenges against the Legg findings, told her: “I fail to see why it would be difficult for you to get the information.” In December, The Daily Telegraph told how Baroness Adams had claimed the second highest level of expenses in the House of Lords last year – £66,896 – despite never making a speech. Since becoming a peer following the 2005 general election, she had spoken just once, and claimed more than £200,000. ************* Related Links: * MPs And Peer Charged Over Expenses Julia Reid, Sky News ************* |
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| Swine Flu Scandal - UK Government Squandered Billions | ||
 February 5, 2010 SWINE FLU SCANDAL By Victoria Fletcher Billions of pounds have been wasted on swine flu vaccines that will never be used BILLIONS of pounds have been wasted on vaccinations that will never be used after the swine flu alert was scaled down. Ministers said yesterday the fluhotline and website that make up the National Pandemic Flu Service will be closed from next week in what is the clearest indication yet that the outbreak is subsiding. Fewer than 5,000 new cases of the H1N1 virus have been recorded every week for the past six weeks, down from a high of 100,000 last summer. But as the NHS was taken off red alert, questions were asked over why so many doses of the vaccine were ordered but never used. Last night, critics described the Government’s reaction as “excessive”. Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “The Government’s reaction to swine flu was excessive and poorly managed. “Of course they should be vigilant to health threats, but they’ve taken that too far, landing taxpayers with a vast bill and unnecessary vaccines. “It beggars belief that they could have signed so many massive contracts with such a flawed assessment of the threat.” The Department of Health ordered 132 million doses of swine flu jabs so that every person could have two doses each. However it quickly emerged that one dose would be sufficient. Although there were well-publicised reports of severe illness, hospital admissions and deaths, many of those struck down said their illness had only been mild. This deterred many people in the at-risk groups from having the jab. Latest figures show that only 4.25 million people have been vaccinated out of the 17 million offered the inoculation. And only 13 million doses have so far been delivered to the NHS. The other 119 million ordered doses are either in warehouses or have not yet been manufactured. So far, the cost of the drugs has remained a secret but some estimates suggest the vaccines could have cost as much as £9 a dose, with a total bill of more than £1billion. The Department of Health is trying to negotiate with the drugs companies GSK and Baxter to see if it can cancel some of the order but it is unclear if it will get any money back. Last night, the Government’s top doctor said it was still important for parents to get the under-fives vaccinated in case swine flu makes a return next year. Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer for England said: “I am pleased to see increasing uptake of vaccine amongst the under-fives. Deaths in this age group have been deeply distressing. When the virus returns I would very much like to see young children already protected. “From now on, most deaths from the pandemic flu virus should be regarded as potentially preventable. “General practitioners have the vaccine and stand ready to offer this vital protection. Parents should contact their doctor to make an appointment. Young children who have the jab will be protected in the next flu season. “Pregnant women and those in all other at-risk groups should continue to have the vaccine as well.” Critics have been sceptical over why there was such panic. The Council of Europe has accused drugs companies of forcing the World Health Organisation to declare an emergency to sell more of their products. Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, the council’s head of health, said the swine flu saga was a medical scandal, adding: “We had a mild flu and a false pandemic.” ************* Related Links: * UK Government Squandered More Than £1 Billion On Swine Flu Con The Press Association / The One Click Group * Pharmaceutical Industry Cried Wolf Over Swine Flu For Profit Staff Writer, RT * ISIS Report - Swine Flu A Faked Pandemic, Gross Conflict Of Interest Dr Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society ************* |
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| UK DNA Database Is Causing Suicides, MPs Are Warned | ||
 04th February 2010 DNA database 'is causing suicides', MPs are warned By Colin Fernandez Keeping profiles of the innocent on the DNA database causes immense distress and has even led to suicide, the pioneer of fingerprinting technology warned MPs yesterday. Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented the use of DNA to fight crime, said storing these records could lead to 'an unfair presumption of guilt'. The DNA database for England and Wales holds over five million profiles with around one million having no criminal conviction.  DNA from innocent people should not be kept on the DNA database, Sir Alec Jeffreys has warned Sir Alec said he had been frequently contacted by innocent people on the database to say how distressed they were and he called for their records to be removed immediately. He told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committe he had been frequently contacted by innocent people on the database to say how distressed they were. In July 2008 Robert Chong, 41, committed suicide because of the 'shame' of being put on the database after he was falsely accused of exposing himself to a woman, he said. Sir Alec Jeffreys said storing DNA could lead to 'an unfair presumption of guilt' A cursory check of CCTV tapes would have demonstrated his innocence. His only interaction with the woman had been when she swore at him on the station concourse. Mr Chong, 41, later became withdrawn and told his mother: 'I'm on the criminal database now, I have got a record,' before killing himself in July 2008. Sir Alec said: 'I want the balance to be struck. I have not heard anything about the rights of the innocent victim, and the distress at being branded a criminal. 'Innocent people on the database are being used inefficiently to solve future crimes - and that goes against their civil rights. 'If you took one million profiles off the database and replaced them with one million randomly selected profiles, would detections rise?' Sir Alec also criticised placing DNA taken from children on the database as 'heavy-handed and disproportionate'. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that holding the profiles of innocent people indefinitely was disproportionate and a breach of privacy rights. The Government proposes to hold innocent profiles for six years, but Sir Alec believes this is excessive. He said: 'I want to get rid of the DNA of innocent people [from the database] it is as simple as that.' The DNA database had developed 'sinister mission creep' which “had taken it away from being a crime fighting tool to one that threatens to undermine public confidence' he said since it was set up. The police can take a DNA sample from anyone arrested for a recordable offence. Last month Home Office minister Alan Campbell revealed that just 377 profiles were deleted in 2009 from the national DNA database after appeals to police chiefs. |
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| Gardasil Vaccine Warnings Ignored Says Researcher | ||
New Zealand 3 February 2010 Gardasil Warnings Ignored Says Researcher By Julie Smith Julie Smith, researcher and founder of a NZ website set up specifically to give information about the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, www.offtheradar.co.nz says concerned parents have been contacting her wanting to know how they can help to have the vaccine withdrawn from NZ. After last night's Close Up on TV 1 Ms Smith says "Many more parents are making the connection to their child's sudden onset of deteriorating health since receiving the Gardasil vaccine." "What is now happening to our girls here in New Zealand is replicating what has already happened overseas. It was only a matter of time before girls here were going to die from this vaccine," said Ms Smith. "When Dr Diane Harper, the woman who designed and conducted the clinical trials for Gardasil, asked our government to take a wait and see approach to this vaccine, why did our MoH not heed her advice? Why, when Dr Harper asked the MoH not to promote Gardasil as a 'cervical cancer vaccine' because, in her words, this is simply not true, did the Ministry of Health ignore her request? "These are just two of the many questions MS Smith says should be put to the Ministry of Health." According to the research Ms Smith has discovered, ninety eight per cent of all women can rid their bodies of human papilloma viruses thanks to the action of their own immune system, and of those two per cent who can't the National Cervical Smear programme will usually detect any pre-cancerous cell changes so they can be treated before cancer develops. Girls and young women have no real health advantage by being vaccinated with Gardasil. However, it is apparent from the many reports here and overseas, of serious adverse reactions to the vaccine, that they do place their health at risk by having this vaccine, Smith maintains. ************* Related Links: * Calls For Cervarix HPV Vaccine To Be Suspended In The UK Daily Mail Reporter, Daily Mail ************* |
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| New Zealand Launches Website For Gardasil Vaccine Victims | ||
www.offtheradar.co.nz Welcome To Off The RadarThis site was born out of the frustration of a parent who wished to make an "informed" decision about Gardasil for their daughter, and the difficulty they incurred at not being told the complete story about the vaccine by "The Ministry of Health and medical establishment". To have a "one stop shop" of information for parents concerning what is being put into their children, whether by vaccine or food, this site endeavours to tell "what they didn't want you to hear".  IMPORTANT NOTICE - NZ mum Rhonda Renata has spoken out about her daughter's death (NZ Herald 09 Jan 2010). So if you hear of any girls or parents with a daughter who is having adverse reactions to this vaccine, or if you yourself have been affected by Gardasil, please contact me through "leave a message" see above. Hopefully we can unite all these adverse reactions into a "body of evidence" to pressurise the Ministry of Health, and ultimately the government, into removing Gardasil from the vaccine list. So to all my guests, please spread the word, many thanks. Julie Smith ************* Related Links: * New USA Website Launched For Gardasil/Cervarix Vaccine Victims Susan Brinkmann, The Bulletin, Philadelphia ************* |
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